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Title: A Five-Year Evaluation of a Comprehensive High School Civic Engagement Initiative. CIRCLE Working Paper #70
Language: English
Authors: McIntosh, Hugh, Berman, Sheldon, Youniss, James, CIRCLE (The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement)
Source: Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). 2010.
Availability: Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE). Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Lincoln Filene Hall, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155. Tel: 617-627-4781; Fax: 617-727-3401; Web site: http://www.civicyouth.org
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 43
Publication Date: 2010
Document Type: Reports - Evaluative
Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: High Schools
Descriptors: Intervention, Citizenship Education, Grade 12, Citizen Participation, Student Participation, School Activities, Student Attitudes, Social Attitudes, Skill Development, Focus Groups, Interviews, Governance, Cluster Grouping, Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Geographic Terms: Massachusetts
Abstract: In September 2003, Hudson High School in Hudson, Massachusetts, launched two new civic development efforts--clustering and schoolwide governance--that provide an opportunity to study the influence of schoolwide democratic deliberation on students' civic knowledge and participation. The intervention involved, in part, organizing the school into clusters of 100 to 150 students that meet for one hour each week to discuss governance and other school-related issues, perform community service, and pursue other cluster-related activities. In 2003 we began collecting data to assess the progress of the clustering and schoolwide governance intervention. The findings to date suggest that the programs have been generally implemented as planned but that changes have been made to address specific issues that have arisen. Because the programs are still evolving, they cannot yet be considered mature. Nevertheless, successive classes of twelfth graders have shown improvements on measures of community service and political knowledge, and the improvements have been widespread in the student population. In addition, these positive changes were relatively larger for disenfranchised youth and other groups of students who initially scored lower than their counterpart groups on these civic measures, indicating that the programs are reaching the students they were designed to reach. Finally, examples from the current study support the idea that adult support, via scaffolding, plays an important role in building youth civic engagement. These findings demonstrate that all students--not just a select few--can and will engage in civic activity in their schools when given appropriate opportunity. A questionnaire used in this report's 21 measures of youth civic development is appended. (Contains 3 footnotes, 4 tables and 4 figures.)
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Number of References: 20
Entry Date: 2010
Accession Number: ED509713
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